Glenn Beck hosted a discussion with Eric Stakelbeck, Frank Gaffney and Gen. Jerry Boykin on creeping Shariah and the new caliphate. Some of the discussion turns theological as Gen. Boykin is a devout Christian, Stakelbeck works for a Christian news site and Beck is a Mormon, but the facts presented are not debatable. An important discussion you should make time to watch.
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USA300: The “Superbug” Sprea Through Sneezes and Coughs
Take this one with several hundred grains of salt because the information is coming from the same part of the world that recently announced they didn’t think there was enough evidence to prove that water cured dehydration. To be fair England has a lot of good people trapped there, but their government is crazed. Still, something to watch:
The bacteria are more virulent than the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people and are spreading across Britain.
They can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact and hugging as well as sneezing and coughing.
One strain, called USA300, can lead to blood poisoning or a form of pneumonia that eats away at lung tissue.
The bacteria are usually resistant to several types of antibiotics and can cause large boils on the skin.
Chris Williams, professor of molecular genetics at the University of Birmingham, said: ‘It breaks down tissue. If it gets into your heart, bacteria can get into your bloodstream and take hold of different parts of your body. That could lead to death quite easily.’
The dangers of the ‘community- acquired’ superbugs are raised in a new study, examining the way they spread. Researcher Dr Ruth Massey said USA300 was ‘causing huge problems in America and is being reported here increasingly’.
She added: ‘These community- acquired strains seem to be good at affecting healthy people – they seem to be much better than the hospital ones at causing disease.’
Dr Massey said there were 1,000 cases of so-called PVL-positive community-acquired MRSA in England in the last year, of which 200 were USA300 strains.
Prof Williams added: ‘If you’re on a crowded tube or bus and you sneeze you can spread the bacteria.
‘But your sneeze can also land on a metal surface and when someone else gets up from their seat and steadies themselves on the hand rail they can catch it.’
Again, grain of salt. The article presupposes that America is virtually under siege by this superbug but I’ve never heard of it. If you’re worried about MRSA though studies have shown that both green tea and honey have been successful in treatments.
Arab Spring! Armed Bedouins Close to Declaring War on Rest of Egypt
They’re holding hostages in a Sinai resort but their grievances – and military capabilities – are not those of simple bandits:
Some 70 armed Bedouins are reportedly holding employees of a Sinai resort hostage, demanding over $650,000 in ransom for their safe release.
The incident likely stems from growing discontent over Bedouin exclusion from the new Egyptian government that took shape after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster last year. Last week, some Bedouin leaders protested “forged parliamentary elections” while threatening armed confrontation with those in power.
“We will not allow a parliament without Bedouin representation… forged through the alliance between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and a certain Islamic party,” said one tribesman.
According to a CNN report, Bedouin militants may be in possession of a significant arms cache, including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, which they allegedly smuggled out of Libya after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.
“We have declared war against the military and will not wait for them to kill us all,” exclaimed one Bedouin leader.
Hundreds of surface to air missiles? That makes them major players in the future. Another report gives more detail on the Bedouin mindset:
Bedouins in Egypt claimed Hosni Mubarak’s regime has discriminated them for many years. After his ousting, the tribesmen began demanding greater representation in the Egyptian parliament and threatened to use force in order to achieve their political goals.
A CNN report last week quoted a Bedouin leader as saying that the “elections were forged and we are being oppressed once again; we are the ‘Jews of Sinai,’” he said, adding that the Bedouins will launch their own revolution “not in Tahrir Square, but in Sinai.”
Good thing we don’t drill for our own oil. It’s not like the middle east is unstable.
California to Run Out of Money in Early March
From the Sacramento Bee:
California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion through payment delays and borrowing, according to a letter state Controller John Chiang sent to state lawmakers today.
The announcement is surprising since lawmakers previously believed the state had enough cash to last through the fiscal year that ends in June.
But Chiang said additional cash management solutions are needed because state tax revenues are $2.6 billion less than what Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers assumed in their optimistic budget last year. Meanwhile, Chiang said, the state is spending $2.6 billion more than state leaders planned on.
Chiang has outlined some kick the can down the road maneuvers like delaying payments to universities and Med-Cal and “borrowing from existing accounts” which sounds like paying a credit card bill with another credit card. But even that will not be enough:
With such actions, Chiang believes the state would not have to use IOUs or delay tax refunds, maneuvers that have been relied upon in previous years. But Chiang also said that “more cash solutions may be required if our revenues continue to erode or if disbursements significantly exceed estimates.”
California borrows money early each fiscal year because the state has regular monthly expenses but receives the bulk of its tax revenues in the spring. The state borrowed $5.4 billion last fall for this purpose.
Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Woodland Hills, downplayed the significance of the new borrowing in a hearing. He said $5.4 billion was small relative to the $10 billion state leaders were prepared to borrow last year.
Some Republicans raised questions about when the borrowing from state accounts from would be paid back and why the state is spending more than expected.
Gee, I wonder.
The point is that California is circling the drain and the government there is doing everything they can to slow the decent but there’s nothing they can do to stop the ultimate collapse. You Californians need to get prepared for the day the locals give IOUS to the millions on welfare there. That will look something like this:
That was rioting over the Rodney King verdict. Imagine when California tells people who are getting benefits that they are going to have to wait a few weeks for their food stamps and other benefits.
It’s The Real World: Child Sex Abuse Arrests Up 10%
Originally Posted on PACA by DodiaFae on May 20, 2009
Warning: The following video contains graphic descriptions of child/infant rape.
***Project Safe Childhood was introduced to the public in 2006 to combat the increase of sexual predators using the Internet to entice and sexually exploit our children. ***
I wanted to include the above video in this discussion on the rise in child sexual abuse arrests. It was originally posted under the discussion header “Not Fearmongering – It’s the REAL WORLD”, which I find to be very fitting. But even more so now that we see that arrests are up 10%.
I had previously posted an article explaining measures being taken in Europe to tackle the surge in online abuse, and how not all networking sites are on board with the idea. I’d love to see something like the “online emergency button” implemented here in the US and Canada.
From a BBC News Article:
The number of suspected UK child sex offenders arrested over the past year has risen by 10% to 334, the body set up to tackle abuse has said.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit said it had helped protect 139 children and disrupted 82 paedophile networks over the 12 months.
The arrests, in the UK and abroad, were for offences ranging from possession of indecent images to rape. But Ceop warned that the tactics being used by paedophiles were evolving.
Chief executive Jim Gamble said it was “easy to be alarmist” and suggest “technology is opening doors for offenders to abuse children quicker than we can close them”.
Notice that last bolded section… It’s what those of us who have been fighting online predators have been saying for some time now.
The article goes on to say:
But he said: “This is not about technology – this is about people. There is no distinction between the online and offline worlds.”
“This is about the behaviour of offenders manipulating any environment to abuse children.
“Child protection is everybody’s business and we should afford our children the same protection online that we would give them in the park or playground.”
We’ve also been saying this for some time, with one exception… online, the predator can more easily convince a child that they’re something they are not. No child is going to believe a 46 year old man who is trying to convince them that they’re a 12 year old boy if they can actually *see* them. But online, everyone is anonymous. Anyone can be a 13 year old boy, or a 12 year old girl… or both.
But Gamble is absolutely right in that children need just as much protection online as in the real world. He’s right that predators will do anything they can, manipulate anyone or any environment they need to in order to prey upon children. He’s also right in that protecting children is everyone’s responsibility.
A Ceop spokesman said while this was mainly done through instant messaging, there was a “fast-growing trend” of grooming through integrated social networking sites.
Offenders were also using more peer-to-peer networks and newsgroups rather than commercial pay-per-view sites, the report said.
It warned that mobile internet access was “placing new and additional responsibilities on parents”.
This is something we’ve been seeing a lot of. We’ve seen it on Ning, on YouTube, and many other networks. In the last two weeks alone, I’ve reported 8 Ning sites to NCMEC for containing child pornography… some of it the most graphic I’ve ever seen. (I should note here that Ning, for the most part, has been very responsive when I’ve reported these sites to them, as well.)
One last note, that may make anyone reading this feel a little more hopeful:
Mr Gamble said its work with colleagues overseas was “shrinking the world for the offender”.